PhotoOne of the women who received a settlement from Bill O’Reilly after making sexual harassment allegations against the top-rated Fox News host sharply criticized President Trump on Wednesday for defending Mr. O’Reilly. The Twitter posts on Wednesday were the first time Ms. Gomez Diamond had spoken publicly about the issue. In 2011, she received a payout from Mr. O’Reilly after she said that he had sexually harassed her. “I have merit,” Ms. Gomez Diamond wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. In an interview on Wednesday in the Oval Office with reporters for The Times, Mr. Trump defended Mr. O’Reilly, whose show he has appeared on for years.

Source: New York Times April 05, 2017 23:51 UTC